The relationship between religiosity, religious approach and orientation with happiness in Iranian society (Review study)

In the present era, with the increase of positive psychological movements, many requests have been accepted to identify the factors and strategies to increase happiness and mental health. One of these is the study of the effect of religion on happiness.
Research in this field has had different methods and even results. The present study seeks to express the results and summarize a series of studies conducted in Iran on the impact of religiosity and religious orientation on happiness. In this article, first, using appropriate keywords and searching in Google browser and magiran and iranmedex sites, a significant number of researches were found, and after studying about 20 of them, finally 10 articles using similar questionnaires and statistical methods were chosen and their data was analyzed.* The findings showed that there is a positive correlation and a significant relationship between religiosity, religious attitude and orientation and happiness, and with increasing the level of religiosity, religious attitude and internal religious orientation, happiness increases.
As a result, one of the solutions to increase happiness is planning and compiling educational and cultural packages to strengthen religiosity, religious attitude and internal religious orientation.